Members of Santerrain, I've been reading this manga series called Lone Wolf And Cub. It's a carefully researched masterpiece that takes place in Edo-Era Japan about a Samurai (Ronin) assassin who uses a Dötanüki... but the thing is, he travels with his three year-old son, Daigoro who helps him with his assassinations. The fight scenes are incredible and the atmosphere is very reaslistic feeling. I just thought I would recommend it since I love it so much, maybe you can gain some inspiration from it ^_^

The series was originally in Japanese but is recently being published in English by Dark Horse Comics. Each volume is about 300 pages each and they only cost $9.95, I think there are 8 volumes available at the moment and more are being published each month.

Sounds cool. Do you think it would be at my local Hastings store?

hmmm :D
sounds cool

Forgive me since I don't know what Hastings is... but any large bookstore either A) carries it or B) can order it for you.

Also if you know of any Comic Book stores, they should have some there, or can order it for you as well.

It is by Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima, with covers by Frank Miller & Lynn Varley